I will proofread line copy edit format book ya fiction novel editing memoir manuscript

Your prose is ninety percent there. The last ten percent is the part readers actually notice.

Line editing is where a competent manuscript becomes a professional one. I work sentence by sentence: cutting the filler verbs, breaking the rhythm where it's gone flat, killing the repeated tic you've used four hundred times without knowing it, tightening dialogue until it sounds like people instead of exposition.

Alongside that, a full copyedit grammar, punctuation, tense, continuity, and a style sheet so your choices stay consistent from page one to the last page.

You receive two files: one with tracked changes and margin comments explaining the why, and one clean copy ready to format.

I edit to Chicago Manual of Style by default, and I'll match house style, British or American conventions, or your series bible on request.

Genres: thriller, crime, literary, romance, memoir, business non-fiction, children's and middle grade.

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